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<h2>Suicide Rates in Germany</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>Data from Heuer (1979) on suicide rates in West Germany classified by
age, sex, and method of suicide.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>
data("Suicide")
</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A data frame with 306 observations and 6 variables.
</p>

<dl>
<dt>Freq</dt><dd><p>frequency of suicides.</p>
</dd>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>factor indicating sex (male, female).</p>
</dd>
<dt>method</dt><dd><p>factor indicating method used.</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age (rounded).</p>
</dd>
<dt>age.group</dt><dd><p>factor.  Age classified into 5 groups.</p>
</dd>
<dt>method2</dt><dd><p>factor indicating method used (same as <code>method</code>
but some levels are merged).</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Michael Friendly (2000),
Visualizing Categorical Data:
<a href="http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/suicide.sas">http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/suicide.sas</a>
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>J. Heuer (1979),
<EM>Selbstmord bei Kindern und Jugendlichen</EM>.
Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart.
</p>
<p>M. Friendly (2000),
<EM>Visualizing Categorical Data</EM>.
SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
data("Suicide")
structable(~ sex + method2 + age.group, data = Suicide)
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